Crews on Wednesday continued to dig through piles of debris that stretched for miles in the search for more than 160 people believed to be missing in the flash floods that laid waste to the Hill Country region of Texas.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday dismissed a question about who was to blame for the deaths, saying, “That’s the word choice of losers.”
“Every football team makes mistakes,” he said. “The losing teams are the ones that try to point out who’s to blame. The championship teams are the ones who say, ’Don’t worry about it, man, we got this. We’re going to make sure that we go score again and we’re going to win this game.' The way winners talk is not to point fingers.”
00:00You ask, and I'm going to use your words, who's to blame?
00:04Know this.
00:05That's the word choice of losers.
00:09Every football team makes mistakes.
00:12The losing teams are the ones that try to point out who's to blame.
00:16The championship teams are the ones that say, don't worry about it, man.
00:19We got this.
00:20We're going to make sure that we go score again, that we're going to win this game.
00:24The way winners talk is not to point fingers.
00:27They talk about solutions.
00:29We're going to address every aspect of this storm to make sure that we're going to have in place the systems that are needed to prevent deadly flooding events like this in the future.
